Cloudflare He has started legal actions against LaLiga by IPS blockages that are affecting thousands of legitimate websites. The technology has presented an incident of nullity against the sentence that covers these blockages, claiming that LaLiga obtained “hiding the foreseeable damage to third parties.”
The reply. LaLiga has responded hard, accusing Cloudflare of being an accomplice of serious crimes.
“While proclaiming that they are defenders of the open Internet, the reality is that they only defend themselves to be able to look, using other clients as digital shield, while protecting criminal organizations consciously,” the statement said.
Between the lines. The organization chaired by Javier Tebas states that Cloudflare “He collaborates through his technology with the commission of the most serious crimes such as child pornography, pimperism, scam, etc.”
It also denies the collaboration that Cloudflare says to maintain with other rights holders.
In perspective. The conflict transcends Spanish borders. According to LaLiga, “in other countries such as France, Germany, Italy, and Portugal the rights holders have also sued Cloudflare in court for their absence of collaboration to eradicate audiovisual fraud.” Specifically mentions that in Italy they have breached “condemnatory judicial resolutions.”
In Italy, the Court of Milan issued judicial orders against Cloudflare for facilitating the distribution of protected content without authorization. In December 2024, it was ruled that Cloudflare had to block the DNS resolution of domains associated with piracy and cease services such as CDN and reverse proxy used to violate copyright. In addition, a daily fine of 10,000 euros for non -compliance was imposed.
In November 2020, the Higher Regional Court of Germany confirmed a court order that forced Cloudflare to prevent its users from accessing content made available to the public without authorization On the DDL-Music website.
The contrast. While Cloudflare speaks of “millions of users” affected by the blockages, LaLiga says that this figure “scarcely reaches a hundred” and has challenged the technological to demonstrate it. To do this, you have enabled a mailbox where those affected can report incidents (affectedcloudflare@laliga.es). In parallel a joint complaint is being prepared.
Then we play the statement that LaLiga has sent to Xataka in answer to The legal actions announced by Cloudflare:
Before the statement that has made cloudflare public this Wednesday, LaLiga wants to clarify that the fact that Cloudflare says that he is usually collaborating with the rights holders to resolve illegal retransmissions is flatly false. However, in other countries such as France, Germany, Italy, and Portugal the rights holders have also sued Cloudflare in court for their absence of collaboration to eradicate audiovisual fraud. Specifically in Italy they have even breached these convictions.
LaLiga, as she has always done with other Internet operators, has made a multitude of requirements to Cloudflare in search of their collaboration, which they have responded with unlikely technological excuses and incoherent ratifying their behavior. One more sample that, while Cloudflare proclaims that they are defenders of the open Internet, the reality is that they only defend being able to continue looked, using other clients as a digital shield, while protecting criminal organizations consciously. LaLiga is positioned as the defender of the Internet open equally, but never from an internet where crimes against intellectual property can be committed, and in the case of Cloudflare collaborates so that it is through its technology, with the commission of the More serious crimes such as child pornography, pimping, fraud, etc.
Likewise, LaLiga denies again that there are massive and indiscriminate blockages of content, nor that they are clumsy or ineffective, but the result of an effective performance carried out by a specialized team, after exhaustive precautions at all levels. In its continuous commitment to protect intellectual property rights, and with the pertinent judicial protection, LaLig legitimate, being cloudflare the sole responsible for it.
Before the inaction and unprotection of Cloudflare towards its own users, LaLig Those affected ascend, which the technology has used as a digital shield, as they assure. Since LaLiga estimates that this figure rare a few hundred.
LaLiga reaffirms its commitment against audiovisual fraud and will take the relevant and provided measures in the judicial field if necessary, in its purpose of defending their intellectual property assets and the interests and integrity of their clubs and Internet users.
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